Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost three years the Atomic Energy Commission has made a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who discovers a deposit of high-grade uranium ore. No one has claimed the reward. Last week AEC, which buys most of its ore from Canada and the Belgian Congo, raised the offer to a top of $35,000, agreed to pay for the discovery of low-grade deposits...
...Washington, the Senate beat down an amendment proposed by Senator Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) to cut Air Force, Navy, and Marine minimum enlistments from four to three years. Morse accused these branches of the service of "stock-piling" manpower by "grabbing more men than they can absorb...or train properly...
...these materials is wolfram, an ore containing tungsten which is necessary for hardening steel. During the last war, Spain did a profitable business in wolfram, selling it to both sides at the highest price the traffic would bear. But during the past fifteen months, exports of wolfram from Spain have been very low; the United States has imported only five tons. The Spanish government raised the price of the ore from $2,300 a ton to $4,700 a ton last winter, and has now set a new export minimum of $4,900 a ton. This price is too steep...
Senators Morse (R-Ore.) and Taft (R-Ohio) accused the military of a waste of manpower and asked a ceiling around 3,000,000 on military manpower...
...point of Labrador iron ore alone, Western strategists shudder to think of total war with no seaway. With the great Mesabi deposits inexorably running out, Labrador is the only known alternative source that could be made completely safe from submarines. This has lined the Pentagon up in earnest support of the seaway. It has also won over the Midwestern steel companies, many major manufacturers (including General Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, Ford) and some influential Senators-notably Ohio's Taft...